OK, it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted something here. Been quite busy with work, family and other projects I volunteer my time for. I sneak in once in a while to see where I can assist where I can.
Now, my question that my Google foo hasn’t been able to answer yet is, has anyone been able to successfuly install PHP7 on Centos 6.8? I found a guide for installing PHP7 from the webtatic repo, users from the Centos forum recommend against it, and even if I did it seems I have to remove PHP5.x first which requires me to remove a number of the NethServer modules, this obviously isn’t a good idea. Has anyone tried to install php7 on 6.8 at all?
As far as I know, your best bet for running anything above 5.3 is using scl… which has been problematic, I understand that trying to straight up install anything above 5.3 in 6.8 will play havoc with a few aspects of NS, so the above discussion is as much as you’re likely to find. NS 7 comes with 5.4 and I’m interested in figuring out the safest way to get to php 7 as well, because, as I’ve heard, the Nextcloud folks are likely to drop support for php 5.4 when they go to 11. Point is, instead of letting your post languish, I thought I’d give the the best idea that I know of where we’re at regarding php, something we’re kinda bound by from upstream.
I appreciate it, perhaps this will help anyone else looking to update to php7 as well. The reason I want to go to php7 is that there is an app that works best under php7, it doesn’t quite work right on anything older than that and I want NS to server the app.
Unfortunately, this falls into the same bucket with old kernel versions.